How old were you when you got your first....

[mlzoiss]

Worked at Wendy's for 8 years starting at age 14. My parents insisted, and then didn't let me get a license until I was 18. I had to depend on them for rides, so I spent many hours sitting around waiting for them to pick me up.

Now I am a wife and mother, best job in the world!

 

[sharkey]

Paper route at 11.

 

[Bunnykid68]

So, you spent three hours a week at strangers' houses handling their wood.
Am I getting this right?

Worked at home you perverts

 

[terrehautian]

First real job (aka taxes taken out) was 17 at McDonalds. Did it for two months. Then went to two pizza places, Krogers before my senior year of high school I was told I should apply for a part time job at a tv station. That was in 2001. I got full time in 2005 and am still here. I did mow lawns for a short time at 15, but it was hard to get a job since I didn't get my drivers license until I was 17. Between now and when I started part time, I have worked five years part time at a grocery store, a few months at a bowling on my colleges campus, a few months at a medical transportation company.

 

[Daltech Force]

Great question. I would ride my bike down to this old guy's leather shop and he would pay me to gather up all the oldest, grungiest, ugliest, dryed up leather harnesses brought in by local farmers. I would put them in this 3x4 make-shift wire basket and lower them into what I know now was old motor oil out of the tractor and other engines with as much neat's foot oil as he could afford. I'd leave them soaking in that black gunk for about 15 minutes then I'd lift it out and let it drain off for the rest of the day and night. The next morning and day I would spend wiping down all the leather pieces so they would last another 5 years or so in the weather and fields. I swore I would not ever work with leather. Now I own a leather business - go figure.

 

[Ted]

Worked at home you perverts

So Chester the Molester actually came to your home?

That's worse than I thought.

 

[RobbyMaQ]

I found a job as a dog sitter in the paper when I was 12. It was a joke, but it was money. Later I got a paper route, in the projects... yeah that was fun

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Don't remember how old I was, but I mowed a lot of lawns, winterized boats on the lake then unwinterized them in the spring, several summer jobs, including scabbing at Kroger during the strike (dating myself there, but it was $5.50/hr! Oh, and there was this one girl I got to go way back in the bottle sorting line with...), Central Hardware (dating myself again), whatnot. Developed some sort of work ethic there for a while.

 

[Stschil]

Don't remember how old I was, but I mowed a lot of lawns, winterized boats on the lake then unwinterized them in the spring, several summer jobs, including scabbing at Kroger during the strike (dating myself there, but it was $5.50/hr! Oh, and there was this one girl I got to go way back in the bottle sorting line with...), Central Hardware (dating myself again), whatnot. Developed some sort of work ethic there for a while.

Keep 'dating yourself' and you'll go blind....

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

My eyes aren't what they used to be, now that you mention it.

 

[JimmyR]

13-16...I think

I think I was in my early teens, but to be honest, it may have been earlier. My father owned his own woodcraft shop. I worked in his shop most summers, and got paid occasionally (ain't that how working for family works?). Spent more time with power sanders than I care to recall...

 

[Leo]

I was 6'1" and 175 ibs in 8th grade. The boss never asked for ID. Later, I asked for the day off to celebrate my 16th birthday. That really made him nervous because I had been using his car to run errands for over a year. He never asked If I had a license, he asked if I could drive.

 

[Big J]

Started working in melon fields at 12. At 15 started working at a Ponderosa. I have had several jobs since.

 

[bmgreen13]

Got a paper route in the 4th grade.

 

[Mithrandir]

16 years old

16 years old, sophomore in high school: had to start paying for my own clothes and car. I hate being without work (paid or not)!

God gave Man work even before the Fall. That's an important detail that is easy to forget. Men without work get into trouble. That's something the younger men need to learn ASAP.

 

[CathyInBlue]

I think you just said that even with work, you can't keep a hold of paradise... so what's the point?

 

[Tydeeh22]

when i was 12-13 i was mowing 3-5 yards a week at 25 bucks a pop. mowed, weed-eated, and sidewalks swept up. granted, i only have the slightest clue of how that has made me who i am now. (built a good work ethic it seems.)

at the age of 16 i got my first real job. despised every second of it. (krogers)
after a few months of hell at the communist headquarters, i got a job with a party supply store. for the rest of my highschool years i loved it.

and now when im at my current job, it makes me feel like im making a difference in other peoples lives. (medical facility). im just not too sure if what im after in a job is happiness, or a sense of self-fulfillment.

 

[Dirtebiker]

I found a picture of Snorko working as head cook!

Nice man-boobs Snorko!